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(No ModelJ E. J. LEYBURN & H. B. LAUGHLI'N.

GOMBINED HAIR BRUSH AND COMB.

Patented June 29, 1886.

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EDWARD J. LEYBURN AND HUGH B. LAUGHLIN, OF LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA.

COMBINED HAIR BRUSH AND COlViB.

EECEFECATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 344,664, dated June 29, 1886.. Application filed March 4, 1886. Serial No. 193,920. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD J. LEYBURN and HUGH B. LAUGHLIN,citiZenS of the United States, residing at Lexington, in the county of Rockbridge and State of Virginia, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Hair Brush and Comb; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the comb in normal position upon the back of the brush when not in use, and the relation of the comb to the stay-pin and catch-pin for retaining the comb in such position. Fig. 2 is a like view show ing the comb moved from its shut position, as in Fig. 1, to its open or working position for combing hair, this view showing the relation of the comb to the stay-pin and catch-pin for retaining the comb in its opened or working position; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the comb as having been moved from its working postion indicated in Fig. 2 back to a point midway in its travel from its position in Fig. 2 to its position in Fig. 1, this view exposing more fully a spring-metal con nectiug plate between the brush and the comb.

The object of our invention is to afford all the advantages of a brush and comb in practically one toilet implement, the combination of the brush and comb being such that while the comb may be readily adjusted upon the brush for separate use, it may, when not in use, be so adjusted upon the brush as not to be in the way of the use of the latter and occupy but very little room in addition to that occupied separately by the brush, andin such relation thereto as to be readily manipulated either into working position or out of working position, and firmly held in either of such positions, as the case may be.

In the drawings, A indicates the brush, B the comb, and 0 an intermediate metal plate secured to the back of the brush by one or more screws, as d. This plate is made of any suitable metal, and on its exterior edge, a, is made rounding, so as to conform to the round ing edge a of the back of the brush A. Said plate also, while it is made so as for the most part to rest flat down upon the back of the brush, as shown, has its rear end portion, t, made with a spring-temper, whereby the end portion, 2', will, in its normal condition, be raised somewhat from a seat, as an, out out of the back of the brush, as shown, when the comb occupies either of the positions represented in the figures; but which end portion will have to be depressed slightly and into the seat at when the comb is turned in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 1, in order to adjust it to its working position shown in Fig. 2. The comb B is permanently held to the plate 0 by a metal pivot-pin, as e, which may pass through the back of the comb. as indicated, and then be firmly fixed to the metal plate, or it may pass through said plate arid also the back of the brush, and be retained in place by properly riveting the same to the under surface of the back of the brush. \Ve prefer, however, to have the pivot-pin c fixedly attached to the plate 0, and thence extend up through the comb, the said plate in such case being held in posit-ion upon the back of the brush either by screws, as d, or in any other proper manner. The forward end of the plate 0 is provided with a stay-pin,f, against which the angular shoulder g in one end of the combabuts, or rather in which angular shoulder the stay-pin becomes seated when the comb is in its normal position, as in Fig. 1, and while in such position a like angular shoulder, as made in' the opposite end of the comb affords a similar abutting seat for a metal catch-pin,f, onthe springy end portion, i, of the plate 0, and thus the comb, when in the posit-ion shown in Fig. 1, is held against casual displacement. XVhen, however, it is desired to use the comb, the operator will press down the spring end 71 of the plate 0 sufficient to allow the lower end of the comb to ride upon and over or past the catch-pin f until the com-b has been manipulated into its position for use, as shown in Fig. 2, and in which spring-carrying catch-pin, f, and stay-pin f, In testimony whereof We affix our signatures IQ of the comb pivoted to the brush and having in presence of two witnesses. shoulders g and g, substantially as and for the purpose described. EDWARD J. LEYBURN. 2. Thecombination, with abrush, ofa comb HUGH B. LAUGHLIN.

pivoted between its ends to the brush and de- 7 vices which retain the comb against casual \Vitnesses:

movement after being adjusted for use or out WM. H. LAUGHLIN,

of use, substantially as described. H. B. HOLMES. 

